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date	15/05/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Agency Workers: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will review the Government's financial support packages for agency workers who (a) are unable to access the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, (b) have recently lost their employment and (c) who are ineligible to claim universal credit because they hold more than £16,000 in savings.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	47418
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2020 answer text <p>The Government is committed to protecting people’s jobs and incomes as far as possible. In March the Government announced the unprecedented Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, which has so far supported more than 7.5 million jobs and was recently extended to October. Employers can claim for employees on any type of contract, including agency workers.</p><p> </p><p>For individuals who need to rely on the safety net of the welfare state, the Government has announced a significant package of temporary measures to support them. These include a £20 per week increase to the Universal Credit (UC) standard allowance, and for renters, an increase to the Local Housing Allowance rates so that the UC housing element covers the cheapest third of local rents.</p><p> </p><p>In order to ensure that support is targeted at families most in need, households with capital, such as savings, above £16,000 will be ineligible for UC. In such cases, it is likely that they will have alternative means of financial support.</p><p> </p><p>Individuals who have lost their jobs may be entitled to other welfare support. If they have made sufficient National Insurance contributions, they may be eligible for new style Jobseeker’s Allowance, which does not take savings into account. More information is available at</p><p><a href="https://www.understandinguniversalcredit.gov.uk/employment-and-benefits-support/" target="_blank">www.understandinguniversalcredit.gov.uk/employment-and-benefits-support</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 21/05/2020 20:05:09 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1194931

registered interest
date	12/05/2020
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Travel Agents: Repayments
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that holidaymakers whose holiday was cancelled as a result of a change in Foreign Office travel advice are able to receive the refund to which they are entitled.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	46130
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2020 answer text <p>Package travel agencies are required to comply with The Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018, which protect consumers who have bought package holidays. Consumers are entitled to a refund if forced to cancel a package holiday due to unavoidable and extraordinary circumstances, which should be issued within 14 days, depending on the nature of the contract in place. Further information on the rights and responsibilities of consumers and businesses was published on 30 April by the Competition and Markets Authority who have also set up a covid-19 taskforce for consumers to register complaints.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 21/05/2020 14:28:02 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1194431

registered interest
date	11/05/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Large Goods Vehicles: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to ensure that road hauliers have access to (a) hot food, (b) toilet facilities, and (c) washing facilities while making long-distance deliveries during the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	45389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2020 answer text <p>Officials in the Department have been working closely with the freight associations and operators of Motorway Service Areas (MSAs), to ensure that the MSAs continue to provide suitable food, toilets and shower facilities to hauliers travelling on the road network. We have also been working with large Regional Distribution Centres (RDCs), to ensure they have implemented hygiene procedures and social distancing in line with government guidelines.</p><p> </p><p>In a small number of cases, MSA operators have reduced the opening hours of some facilities, but fuel, toilets, and takeaway food and drink currently remain available at all MSAs 24 hours a day. MSAs must provide these amenities as required by the DfT planning circular.</p><p> </p><p>Truck stops and garages may also provide facilities, however, these are private businesses which are subject to different levels of regulation to MSAs.</p><p> </p><p>Where access to toilet or handwashing facilities is denied, and proper social distancing measures are not in place, this can be reported via e-mail to <a target="_blank">covid19info@rha.uk.net</a>.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 19/05/2020 13:45:03 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1194434

registered interest
date	11/05/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Driving Tests: Key Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many people who have applied for a key worker lorry driving test due to the covid-19 outbreak have been able to access such a test.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	45390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2020 answer text <p>The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has booked 302 emergency lorry driving tests for critical workers for the period 23 March to 19 June 2020.</p><p>The DVSA does not hold data on the number of people who have applied for a key worker lorry driving test due to the covid-19 outbreak. This is because the booking system that was used between 23 March and 24 April 2020 was a manual system that captured the number of emails received, not number of unique requests received.</p><p>The DVSA has now streamlined the process and introduced a new online application form.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Redditch answering member printed Rachel Maclean question first answered 19/05/2020 14:31:10 answering member 4668 label Biography information for Rachel Maclean
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1194437

registered interest
date	11/05/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Locums: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to encourage locum doctors to work more hours during the covid-19 oubreak; and whether he has reviewed death in service benefits for locum doctors since the start of that outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	45392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2020 answer text <p>The National Health Service has mobilised a large number of clinical and non-clinical staff, both retired and who normally work in the private sector, to ensure sufficient supply of medical staff to manage the challenges that this pandemic has created for the NHS.</p><p>In addition, the NHS has a robust temporary staffing supply chain to ensure it can bring in the right people at the right time to deal with fluctuations in demand.</p><p>In general practice, general practitioner (GP) locums as well as returners and substantive GPs wishing to increase their hours are providing additional patient care within the NHS 111 COVID-19 Clinical Assessment Services.</p><p>The NHS Pension Scheme provides good quality death in service benefits to all members. The Secretary of State recently announced a new life assurance scheme for frontline health and social care staff who contract COVID-19 during the course of their work. The scheme is non-contributory and pays a £60,000 lump sum where staff die as a result of COVID-19 and had been recently working in frontline roles and locations where personal care is provided to individuals who have contracted COVID-19.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 19/05/2020 16:15:29 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones

1194724

registered interest
date	11/05/2020
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Credit
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to extend the provisions of section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act to cover creditors that are third-parties.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Darren Jones
uin	45394
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2020 answer text <p>Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 usually only applies when there is a direct transactional relationship between the debtor (the consumer), the creditor (the credit card provider), and the supplier of goods and services.</p><p> </p><p>If a credit card is used to pay for something through a third-party intermediary service, for example a payment services provider, the conditions in section 75 may not be met.</p><p> </p><p>This aims to strike the right balance between consumer protection and proportionate burdens on business, and the Government does not intend to extend the liability of a creditor with respect to suppliers with which it has no relationship or arrangement.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 19/05/2020 10:51:37 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	4621 label Biography information for Darren Jones